Found this engaged a Year 10 Applied GCSE Business Studies class into the topic of stakeholders and the varying interest and influence on the program as a business. However can be adapted for Post 16 use. The activity can be differentiated through adding or removing stakeholders or even adding to the complexity of stakeholders.

Developed this Kineasthetic starter for Yr 10 Applied GCSE Business Studies as an introduction to functional areas and organisational structure. There is also an element of problem solving as pupils must work out which area applies to them before starting the kineasthetic part. Activity 1 has functional areas & functional area descriptions. Activity 2 can be used for the 2nd half of the class with functional areas é job descriptions. Activity 3 has all the class problem solving before moving around.

All the concepts for the Year 2 of AQA business spec blank so definitions can be filled in… Then a box for contexts to help students with contexualised analysis. Students to fill in in which situations / cases very important or useful vs less so. Simple design but fully editable

Full Paper 1 style case for the new AQA Business specification Originally created for an internal mock from scratch Useful for revision / exam prep

Designed in 2018 for my year 12 business A level class Full lesson on the measures of HR performance - Labour turnover and Employee Retention starts off labour turnover with a Data for bell work/starter then does into discussion of why does it matter before looking at some data of different industries/sectors then eval q to develop higher order skills and depends on then moves onto employee retention with some data to analyse before comparing sectors/industries then a decision making activity and reading to support.

Great Lesson which worked well for my Upper 6 A level Business Students - not much out there on this topic. Various versions - one which works well if in a private school and the other in a maintained school Starts off with describing a business in terms of important issues in terms of the model before putting students into a decision making situation where they can also analyse and evaluate, compare and contrast Draw the model out of this Then there is a active matrix use activity before looking at a case study with questions…

Quick revision calcs for AQA business specification - simple and quick revision

CONSOLIDATION PLACE MATS / REVISION FILL IN THE BLANKS SHEETS covering AQA YEAR 1 content Created for my students to help them consolidate the whole of year 1 content over the summer holidays but would be useful at anypoint before exams Questions that help cover theory, evaluations and some context 6 x SHEETS which will need enlarging up to A3 via photocopy Covering: 1. What is business including legal structures, 2. Markets inc Market Research and STP, 3. Marketing decisions including 7p’s, 4. Operational decisions including lean production and network diagrams, 5. Finance decisions including B/E, budgets, cashflow and balance sheets. 6.Human resource decisions including motivation, management styles, HR strategies and organisational structures PDF and WORD format

Management Style: Tannenbaum and Schmidt lesson: planned for Year 1 AQA business spec Scenario opener - asking students to come up with how they would make decisions in 6 x scenarios then link to Tannenbaum and Schmidt theory. Then another scenario to build analysis and eval skills & eval depends on arguments. finally a mix and match activity to develop judgement skills. notes on depends on factors Visual Plenary.

revision resource that worked really well for the AQA spec focusing on helping students identify the “it depends on” so that students analysis is applied to the context and debates the situations where the concept may be more or less important/effective/a good way. 8 different essays with stem before hand possible depends on arguments on the powerpoint

used for a half term mock in term 1 of the lower 6 before any marketing or other functional areas really taught... also MS will levels and differences to look for as tell tell signs for different levels

Designed to help my students consolidate their understanding from the 1st term of their AQA Business A level. Helpful for lower 6 students in the early stages of the course and for upper 6 to revise these elements of the course. Available in fully editable word format. 12 pages of revision questions, tables and situations to explain (by filling in and answering the questions..) covering the topics within the intro to business and marketing parts of the 1st year of the course. Split into 4 sections: where students have questions and tables to fill in What is business - early questions Different legal forms - sole trader, Ltd, PLC, Share prices and market capitalization Some financial objectives - revenues, costs, profits, contribution, break-even Understanding markets and marketing - covering all element of the spec in these areas

Greiner's Growth Model into an active lesson: There is a structured role-play activity They can do this in groups and discuss their similarities in answers and differences this then links to some real-life airline problems where they can discuss where they fit on the model (if they do or not) There is a video link explaining the theory and then you can get them to discuss the implications. Before an evaluation question to help them critique the model

Revision Test with 10 q's on the AQA Alevel Specification Useful for consolidation / recap

2 Full lessons helping students to derive Lewins forces for and resisting forces for change worked well for my classes.... Activities all on powerpoint - can take off and add to word etc as needed Deriving the model activity to start based on teacher / school scenario's then applied to other situations in time - updated for 2018 - 2 business change of strategies with use of numbers to help with evaluation skills Plenary with data answer available Lesson 2 Visual starter...idea shower analysing forces and decision making activity applied to struggling business context with data (mintel and other sources) Notes on theory

Updated version for 2019 with some answers for the calculation bits also Using for my U6 this year WORKBOOK 1 - introduction to strategy WORKBOOK 2 - choosing strategy WORKBOOK 3 - assessing internal strengths and weaknesses WORKBOOK 4 - assessing external opportunities and threats WORKBOOK 5 - assessing strategy WORKBOOK 6 - strategic implementation

Brand new activity designed for my A Level Business class for revision but also would work for skill building at end of year 1: 52 contexts (slips/boxes) and 32 Slides of the main theory/contexts in the Year 1 of the AQA specification (one theory per slide) on each slide students are asked to identify two contexts - one that could be useful / important / an issue for and one less so... they then need to explain why - so building contextualised analysis skills for short answers and compare and contrast judgment skills for essays. 52 compare and contrast contexts are thought of - which can be cut out so students can have a kinaesthetic activity or printed onto one A3 sheet of paper for quicker identification. fully editable revision or skills building resource

Full lesson focusing on an integrated marketing mix with an Introduction of analysis of beer industry to start the conversation before moving onto looking at different types of Beer (normally I bring in props) and Beer market data with different usage habits... then a decision making activity on designing a beer for a target market which is quite good as it shows what Carlsberg actually did (which is normally very different to what the students normally come up with).

EDUQAS Business AS PAPER 2 Style paper; mark scheme Original paper created - majority of mark scheme also included on file